Jeremy Clarkson: Shoot the strikers
Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson offers a controversial opinion on those who went on strike yesterday on BBC1's The One Show:
"I'd have them all shot. I would take them outside and execute them in front of their families."
Shadow Cabinet Office minister Jon Trickett calls on prime minister David Cameron, a personal friend of Clarkson, to distance himself from Clarkson's comment:
"No one wants these strikes but most of today's strikers are mums, not militants. Clarkson should apologise.
"And the prime minister should make clear he disassociates himself from the distasteful remarks uttered by one of his friends."
Cameron, asked about Clarkson's comment on ITV1's This Morning programme, partially obliges: "That was a silly thing to say and I'm sure he didn't mean that."
